Multibladed garden implement.



13. VUSHELL. MULTIBLA'DED GARDEN IMPLEMENT.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 1,1908` D l'tAPER VOSHELL, Ol? WILING'ION, DELAWARE.

MIULTIBLADED GARDEN IMPLEMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 27, 1908.

Application fixed June 1, 190s. serial No. 435,952'.

To all 'whom 'if may concern:

. h l form ol a goose neck, though thls is not nec- Be it known that l', De van VosHnLL, a l essary and will depend entirely upon the tool citizen ol the Vlhiited States, residing at .Vih n'iington, in the county of .Newcastle and State ol Delaware, have invented certain new and uselul l niproveincnts in hhiltibladed Garden linpleiuents, ol which the following a specification.

)ly invention 'relates to gardening tools and more particularly to a gardening implement having a plurality of transposal'ile blades adapted to be rigidly secured in position in one handle and to be easily detaehed'and substituted, one for another.

The obiect o'l my invention is to provide a means whereby a plurality ol different gardening tools may be used with a common handle,- instead oi" having to have each tool provided with its own handle.

To this end my invention consists in the arrangements o'l" parts and details ol' con,

struction set Jforth in the following description and particularly specified in the claims.

ln the drawings, l have illustrated an ein bodinient of .my invention. wherein `Figure 1 is a perspective View of an implement of the .kind descrlbed provided with a rake at one vend. Fig. 2, is a side view of the rake showing its attachment te lhe. handle, the 'lierrule ol' the handle being in section. Fig. 3, is an enlarged longitudinal section ol' the ferrule. Figs. 4, 5, G, 7 and 8 are perspective views of various iorins of gardening implements capablo o'l' attachment to the one handle.

Like reference characters throughout the several views designate. like parts.

A designates the handle made usual of wood and having the reduced end a which thus forms a shoulder o. llpon the reduced end is the lierrule B. The lower portion of the ferrule has relatively thick walls, while the upper portion of the iierrule. is relatively thin as to lit over the reduced portion o of the. handle, and so that the upper end ol the ferrule will lit closely against the shoulder a. The junction of the thin portion of the ferrule and the thick portion B, lornis a shoulder b against which the end ot the reduced portion a abut-s. This gives the ferrule a very solid hearing upon the lower end of the handle.

The lower portion of the ferrule is screw threaded on its interior as shown particularly in Fig. 3, for the insertion therein of the screw threaded end C', of a shank C. n most of the ligures this shank is shown in the to which it is attached. At its forward end the shank C is riveted to any suitable tool, as for instance, the rake l), the hoes E and F, or the )eculiar weeders and choppers G, H and I, shown in Figs. 6, 7 and 8. The two hoes E and F vary merely in width, but the blade G is a chopping blade pointed at its lower end and has rounded edges, while the blade H is two pronged aty one end and straight at the other, the blade l having a round pointed extremity at one end and. being straight at the other. It will be seen that all these blades are suited to different purposes, and vet that they all forni part ot one tool provided with a connnon handle to which they are readily adjustable when desired.

The advantage of my invention resides in the fact that when going to the lield to work it is not necessary to carry a multiplicity oll implements with a inultililicity of handles attached thereto, or it an especial dil'liculty cornes up, it is not necessary to return to the shop for new tools, but only necessary to u1.- screw and detach one of the blades and replace it by the proper blade. This is a great saving of time as well labor, and also perniits the combined tools to be inade very cheaply and to be trans-shipped at less expense.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is: v

A garden implement having a handle pro vided at its lower end with a` reduced portion, a tapered hollow ferrule 'fitting over said reduced portion, the up )er end of said terr-ole abutting against a. shoulder onthe handle, thelower end of the lerrulo being thickened and screw threaded on its interior, said screw threaded portion extending into and oining said hollow ferrule thereby forn1 ing a shoulder against which the end of the handle lits;` in combination with a blade having a screw threaded shank adapted to fit into the screw threaded fel-rule and to abutagainst the enel of the handle.

In testimony whereof I have signed my naine to this specification in theprescnce of two subscribing witnesses.

i DRAPER VOSHELL. Witnesses:

CHARLES GREEN, CHARLES F. Bowans. 

